20 November 2008
Connecticut Needs Bats in Their Belfry
Posted by admin under: community service .
The Navy’s Dolphin News has a story about a Girl Scout Troop helping to bring the local mosquito population under control.
As an environmentally friendly way of controlling the insects, SUBASE and the Girl Scout troop set out to create homes for ‘Little Brown Bats,’ a natural predator of the mosquitoes. An initiative of base Environmental Division’s Richard Conant, a biologist, SUBASE received a NPLD grant of $875 from the National Environmental Education Foundation for the purchase and installation of the Little Brown Bat nesting boxes.
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“The addition of these boxes at Fife and the base will provide homes for nearly one hundred bats in the area,” said Conant. “That’s a more than suitable amount to bring the mosquito population back down to size, and is certainly a great way for SUBASE to continue to be a good steward to the environment and make a positive impact.”
Several Boy Scouts have done this sort of thing as an Eagle project including this year’s American Legion Eagle Scout of the Year, Paul Banwart.
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- Girl Scouts’ Winning Ways (BBQ Edition)
- Saturday’s Eagle Nest (delayed) – 10/4/2008
